Browsing category “new media”
Stuff about new media art and the like
October 24th, 2010

Hacked NES cartridge by Cory Arcangel.
Arcangel used an original Super Mario cartridge and hacked it so that everything but the clouds was removed.
What I find especially interesting about this piece is that it pisses some many off, and sends them…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with 2002, 200s, cory arcangel, flying, game-art
October 19th, 2010

video by Camille Laurelli, www.laurelli.blogspot.com
If you’re wondering whether this is even possible, all I have to say is that it’s not fake, it’s art.
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with 2000s, 2006, flying, installation, video
October 18th, 2010

Automaton by Jacques de Vaucanson
Vaucanson’s duck is one of several “automata” made by Jacques Vaucanson (1709-1782). The actual duck has been lost – reportedly lost in a fire while on tour in Russia – and few surviving photographs exist. The…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with 1700s, automaton, autonomous, flying, installation, mechanical, sculpture, vaucanson
October 13th, 2010

Open Burble by Usman Haque (and others, see full credits here was a commissioned piece for the Singapore Biennale 2006, in which about 1000 latex balloons, equipped with LEDs and microcontrollers, are assembled to this huge shape that rises like a…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with environment, flying
October 7th, 2010

Giant foam letters that float up in the sky.
At first, I’ll admit, I thought this was an art piece, but it seems it is actually a form of advertising created by a company called Flogos. The video on YouTube…
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Posted in pieces, ramblings | Tagged with 3d-printing, autonomous, commercial, flying, foam, installation
August 25th, 2009

Experimental music instruments by Luigi Russolo.
Russolo, an Italian futurist painter and composer, made these wonderful noise-making instruments 1913. There were 27 different versions, each named, and each making some sort of noise or sound; like that of machines, but turned…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with 1910s, instrument, music
June 5th, 2009
Live video by Ilona Huss Wallin (2002)

Wallin built a model of a home, in the scale of rats. For five weeks they were living in the model, constantly monitored by video cameras. The video was streamed in real time and…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with video
April 7th, 2009
kinetic sculpture by ART+COM (2008)

This kinetic scuplture consists of 714 balls (in, I believe, a 15 x 42 grid) that drop down on wires from the ceiling. During a 7-minute run they form various forms; at first just a random cloud,…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with kinetic, sculpture
March 30th, 2009

Light installation (?) by Anthony McCall (1973)
A 16mm projector is projecting a movie on the wall. At first, the movie seems to be just a white point on a black background. Very slowly, it starts expanding, first to an arc, and…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with installation, light
March 16th, 2009
Responsive video installation by Alvaro Cassinelli and Masatoshi Ishakawa

Khronos Projector looks like a backprojected image on a wall. But the projection surface is very flexible, and you can push it in with your hands. When you do that, the parts of…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with Alvaro Cassinelli, installation, responsive, slitscan, video
March 9th, 2009
Responsive wearable by Hachiya Kazuhiko (1993)

Two people put on these machines that let you swap your visual and auditory input with each other, so that you “can only see through the other person’s eyes”.
Photo: Kurokawa Mikio
>> artist’s home page
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with 1990s, art, goggle, perception, responsive, wearable
March 2nd, 2009
Closed circuit TV installation with bronze statue, by Nam June Paik (1974)

A statue of the Buddha is watching its own image on TV. Need I say more?
>> paikstudios.com
>> TV Buddha at medienkunstnetz
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Posted in new media, pieces | Tagged with 1970s, cctv, installation, nam june paik
February 23rd, 2009
Lightbox with Duratrans print by Jim Campbell

In his series of “illuminated averages”, artist Jim Campbell creates averages of video sequences. Of course (well, I assume)Â he makes these using some sort of software, not by hand, but they also refer…
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Posted in new media, pieces | Tagged with 2000s, dynamism, Jim Campbell, psycho
February 16th, 2009
Interactive media façade by Chaos Computer Club (2001-)

Project Blinkenlights was a public installations that turned the façade of a building into a low-resolution display, using lights inside the windows. Members of the general public could upload their own animations to the…
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Posted in new media, pieces | Tagged with installation, interactive, large-scale, media facade
February 10th, 2009

interactive game environment by Pierre Huyghe (1999)
Two people hold game controllers and play Pong using the lights in the ceiling as pixels.
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Posted in new media, pieces | Tagged with environment, game, interactive, light, pong
January 29th, 2009
Autonomous kinetic sculptures by Theo Jensen.
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Theo Jensen is one of those characters that you just have to love. On his CV he lists how he…
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Posted in new media, pieces | Tagged with genetic algorithm, kinetic, large-scale, sculpture, strandbeest
December 16th, 2008
Responsive wearable goggles by Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chebyshev.

super-i presents itself as a pair of wearable goggles with a camera on front. There’s a little box containing some electronics that let you apply different filters to the image from the camera…
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Posted in new media, pieces | Tagged with Alexei Shulgin, Aristarkh Chernyshev, ascii, filter, goggles, responsive, russian, wearable
November 27th, 2008
http://www.vimeo.com/921725
OpenFrameworks is a cross-platform, open-source C++ library for creative coding. It seems to be really catching on in the new media field, and a lot of artists and hackers are now using it. Watch the video I posted here, “Made…
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Posted in new media, tools of the trade | Tagged with c++, openframeworks
November 21st, 2008
The next OpenFrameworks Syjunta is scheduled for nov 26th 2008. This time the venue is Detroit on Roslagsgatan 21.
>> collectiveexperiments.com/ofsyjunta
>> detroitstockholm.com
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Posted in events, new media | Tagged with detroit, openframeworks, Stockholm, syjunta
October 21st, 2008

Stockholm has been blessed with its own openFrameworks Knitting Circle. If you’re wondering why I’m talking about a knitting circle at at new media blog, it’s because this is not really a knitting circle. The craft here is hacking, not knitting.…
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Posted in events, new media | Tagged with event, openframeworks, Stockholm, syjunta